Uropa2 - The Ulterior Colony CD

[rfancella]

Hello all,
I am hoping someone can help me out just a bit.
Here is my issue. I am trying to get Uropa 2 to run in WinUAE 3.1RC2b21.
I have the UAE Video Drivers loaded in the Startup-Sequence with this:

IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors
  IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
    DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
  EndIF
 
  C:List >NIL: DEVS:Monitors/~(#?.info|VGAOnly) TO T:M LFORMAT "DEVS:Monitors
  Execute T:M
  C:Delete >NIL: T:M
EndIF

Here is where the trouble starts. I do not want to change any of this startup, but when the game is launched, I get a black screen with background music.
If I comment out (which I don't want to do) the line "Execute T:M" this prevents the uae video from loading and the game launches fine.
Is there some way I can unload the uae drivers? Or a setting to allow the game to display correctly with the uae drivers loaded?

Thanks,
Ron

[Korodny]

Originally Posted by rfancella

Here is where the trouble starts. I do not want to change any of this startup, but when the game is launched, I get a black screen with background music.

Some games fail to properly initialise the display if workbench is using a non-hires screen mode. Start Prefs/Screen, switch to a PAL:Hires screen, then run Uropa.

If that works, go check Aminet. There are tools that will automate the process, but I can't remember their names - it's been to long.

KillAGA does what you need, IIRC - but it also disables AGA, I guess.

[rfancella]

Korodny,
Thank you for your prompt reply. My setup is already in PAL:Hires. So no change there. And you are correct, KillAGA doesn't work either.

Thanks,
Ron

[Toni Wilen]

I guess this game hates Picasso96 if it happens even in normal chipset graphics mode with Picasso96 driver loaded.

Unfortunately there is not much to do. (and it most likely is not emulation-only).

[rfancella]

Thank you also Toni for your reply.
After some digging Brolly discovered there is a patch called "uropa233.lha" out there somewhere. The file is listed but not available from the publishers website. Does anyone have this file?
It is suposed to fix the Picasso96 crash at boot.

Thanks,
Ron

[brolly]

It's available on that other link I sent you Ron

[rfancella]

Thanks Brolly,
I was hoping for just the patch. Getting the other link now.

Thanks,
Ron

[rfancella]

Update. Found the patch. Copied the file to LIBS: and the game now launches without an issue!
If anyone is interested, I'll upload both the 232 and 233 updates to the FTP.

Thanks,
Ron

[BigFan]

i'm interested, but i can't find the updates. where have you put them?

thank you for finding and uploading.

[rfancella]

I tried to upload them to the FTP here, but it would not allow me to.

Thanks,
Ron